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Rather Quotes by Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those…
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Most people would rather give than get affection.
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment…
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of…
- Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort
- Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling…
- Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems,…
- If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being…
- We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality…
- Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are…
- For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except…
- In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are…
- The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
- For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the…
- In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not…
- To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
- [I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good…
- The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.
- They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes…
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- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
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